Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first (that is, the order of organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.

The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.